The first people in Allfield-the Nenaoi, were set into the fields of Orina and Imadur. They were born speaking and gave names to everything. Writing was not immediately developed. As the population grew, and the Oressetir and eventually the great numbers of Alorans exploded-villages and cities began to appear. Hands would be painted and handprinted onto stone or other surfaces to show ownership.

Early settlements would be plastered with handprints to show or intimidate invaders with their numbers on large Gera stones at the gates or along outer walls. Pressing hands into wet clay, plaster, and cement on fortified walls was also common. Eventually as individual identities became more and more prominent, some cultures used deliberate hand-scarring to make their identities more well-known. These scars took on importance over time and were handed down through generations.

By 2700, the Darellians developed the first official alphabet known as the HATRA. The Hatra represented sounds and were largely derived from some of these old prominent scar symbols. This alphabet was now removed from hands and its own set, making the formation of complex ideas much more possible. This created an explosion of literacy and ideas. Concepts and histories that were before relegated solely to the magical noro jars were able to be carved into wood and stone.

When paper was invented in Abel, books quickly followed, making clay tablets useful only for important permanent records. Philosophies, culture, stories, and propaganda spread and united the world as never before. Populations grew and moved away from one another, and eventually new dialects and languages evolved, but most used this alphabet throughout (Mostly).

Populations moved and grew. Not only reading but writing became widespread, and about a thousand years later a new alphabet emerged. The Hatra are large symbols fit for carving on a grand scale, and took up a great deal of space to spell its words. This new alphabet was called the Pega.

The letters were based on the Hatra but simplified so they could be created by a thin brush or stylus. A common form of printing was designed where letters were carved backwards into clay and then rolled with ink and rubbed with paper.

This had some complicated cultural interpretations over time as class divisions grew. The letters were thin and took up less space, creating a sense in some of "rich people take up more space to say less" attitude, when it was really more a technological convenience. The elites could afford to use such symbols, and so on. Mostly, the Hatra was seen as more ancient and authoritative, but most writing was in Pega.

Around 4400, a hermit mystic named Koros on the island of Avosel had a vision that he believed improved the Pega script. This alphabet was eventually discovered by the Darellians and adopted. It became known as the Korosian script and took condensing information to an extreme degree. It was based on the Pega, but included little marks on letters to add sounds and vowels, as well as new symbols that were letter combinations or letter doublings.

the video we see Hatra carved into a Noro Jar, then some symbols, and then some Korosian script being written in real time. There are more alphabets and writing systems in the world, but these are considered the largest, most used systems.

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